We Don't Have to Trade With China

Yet we do:

The Liberal government is introducing cybersecurity legislation that will allow it to implement its Huawei and ZTE ban and put in place a new cybersecurity regime for critical infrastructure in the telecom, finance, transport and energy sectors.

 

Is that so?:

Leading Canadian universities say they intend to continue research and development with Huawei Technologies Co. – which reaps intellectual property from the partnerships – after Ottawa’s decision to ban the Chinese telecommunications giant from 5G wireless networks over national-security concerns.

One cannot serve two masters. 

Either one would rather be Canadian or serve the government that needs the kidneys:

Spokesman Joe Li said the Conservative push for a tougher stance on China had alienated voters of Chinese descent and cost the party three ridings.

Li promoted a more dovish approach, saying Ottawa started the “war” that led to the arbitrary detention of two Canadians, that China should “peacefully” unite with Taiwan and criticism of Beijing’s human-rights record was counter-productive.

The association called for then-leader Erin O’Toole to step down.

Eight months later, O’Toole is gone and the CCCA has chosen its preferred candidate to succeed him, endorsing Brampton, Ont., Mayor Patrick Brown at a recent news conference.

Brown says he’s just eager to welcome more Chinese-Canadians into the party, and that, “of course,” he did not agree with the views Li voiced on China last fall, and has never discussed such issues with him. But the association is not the only one of his leadership supporters in the community to have echoed the Chinese-government stance or had close ties with Beijing.

Brown is a yes-man saying yes to one of the worst dictatorships on the planet.

China tries to claim the Taiwan Strait as its own territory:

Taiwan has firmly rejected Beijing’s claims that it has sovereign rights over the Taiwan Strait, saying it stands by US freedom of navigation activities in international waters.

It also stressed it was fully briefed by Washington on talks in Luxembourg on Monday between US national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese Communist Party Politburo member Yang Jiechi – the third in as many months.

In Taipei on Tuesday, Taiwanese foreign ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou said it was absurd for Beijing to claim that the waterway separating the two sides of the Taiwan Strait was not international waters but the exclusive economic zone of the Chinese mainland.

Also - Japan doesn't need China's permission to do anything:

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday dismissed recent Japanese government efforts to forge closer ties with Taiwan, suggesting that Beijing should “break the leg” of any third party like Tokyo that tries to interfere with the China-Taiwan relationship.

 

Like the relationship a bully has with his victim.

No wonder Taiwan wants arms.

 

And:

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced plans on Friday to boost his country's diplomatic and security role in the Asia Pacific to tackle what he described as growing threats in the region amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Kishida said Japan will consider acquiring a preemptive strike capability in response to an increasingly assertive China, North Korea and now Russia — a controversial plan that critics say would violate Japan’s war-renouncing Constitution.

 

 

No, Samoa, you should not consider it at all:

China's bid to set up a security pact with Pacific island countries should be considered by a regional forum, the leaders of Samoa and New Zealand said on Tuesday, weeks after the Solomon Islands sparked uproar by signing a deal with China.

The Pacific islands and their old allies, including the United States, Australia and New Zealand, were caught off caught off guard by the Solomon Islands' security pact with China as it pushes to expand its influence in the region.

"The issues need to be considered in the broader context of what we have in place and what we want to do in terms of security provisions for the region," Samoa's prime minister, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, told a news conference with her New Zealand counterpart, referring to the Pacific Islands Forum.

Leaders of the forum's members are due meet in mid-July in Fiji, their first in-person gathering since 2019.

China has dismissed criticism of its pact with the Solomon Islands, saying it poses no military threat and closer ties benefit everyone, and is promoting a proposal for a region-wide deal with almost a dozen Pacific countries covering policing, security and data communication cooperation.

Pacific leaders discussed the proposal with a top Chinese official last month but they have not agreed to it.